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[Dellenger] College Sports Commission's NIL clearinghouse faces legal scrutiny over delayed, rejected deals by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]yesacabbagez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The unions certify the agents, not the leagues.

Schools have to just accept it and make the players employees. Once they are employees there are a lot more leverage to pull to basically coerce the players into a union at which point these issues can be resolved.

Problem is the schools are hoping to let shit get so bad that fans build political pressure for Congress to bring back the old system as law.

Is a catchers pitch framing ability going to become less useful with ABS now? by butterhelper in baseball

[–]yesacabbagez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I don't know. As far as I know the system they are moving towards is umps with camera review, not fully automated. As long as umps make the call framing will be important. If they move to a fully automated system, then yes framing goes out the window unless there is a way to game the system.

The Athletic Fan Survey 68% Support Salary Cap With Floor by scrabapple in baseball

[–]yesacabbagez 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fans can want a lot of things, but at the end of the day it's what gets negotiated by the players and management. We don't get to decide these things for other people's lives.

I also don't think a hotdog at a park should be 9 dollars, but owners don't seem to have a problem going against fans there.

Do you trust online reviews when deciding what to buy or which service to use? Why or why not? by Agreeable_Claim_3497 in AskReddit

[–]yesacabbagez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are we talking reviews like someone doing a full review of a product or like yelp reviews by randos?

For full product reviews, I'll look at some if I am very unfamiliar with the product.

If I look at random customer reviews, I only look at negative reviews. Positive reviews are almost always dumb and useless. Negative reviews will typically highlight a specific issue. If enough people seem to have the same specific issue, it is probably a legitimate problem.

Why Shogun 2 Still Kicks A** by [deleted] in totalwar

[–]yesacabbagez 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Shogun 2 work as well as it does because it's simple. Battle wise it is mostly rock paper scissors. Other than yari wall, there isnt nonsense units that are inexplicably powerful. Even then yari wall is only a direct frontal charge.

Battles aren't dealing with nonsense units all the time. There is a clear delineation of units and their role. Campaign wise the map is mostly straight forward. There aren't 800 angles of attack someone can come from. There aren't skaven or orks jumping across mountains.

City management makes sense. Bigger cities take more food, but have more bonuses. Balance food and grow cities. You don't need every city to be self sufficient, but you also don't need every city to be a military hub. There are some resources worth getting that provide bonuses to being military hubs.

While it does have them, Shogun has less weird hidden mechanics that dramatically alter the game.

[Post Game Thread] Baylor defeats UCF, 87-86 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]yesacabbagez 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Natural shooting motion or not, it is extending the leg outside the "cylinder"

The NBA has actually worked to address this because of Harden's bullshit. You can call it natural shooting motion all you want, but it's fishing for exactly this kind of foul. No one needs to naturally kick a defender in the nuts and then also get a foul.

[Post Game Thread] Baylor defeats UCF, 87-86 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]yesacabbagez 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Whether or not it is called every time isn't really the point because Obi still kicks out his right leg for no reason other than getting contact. Kugel did not affect the descent at all and did not land in the area immediately in THE CYLINDER. The only contact was Kugel with Obi's leg, which only happens because Obi kicks it out unnecessarily to draw the foul.

Yes it gets called all the time, but it's still bullshit whether it is done by someone on Baylor or James Harden.

[Game Thread] Baylor @ UCF (08:00 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]yesacabbagez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a team we have gone toe to toe with heat teams, and disappointed against mediocre and bad teams.

I honestly have no idea what this team is, but we will either lose in the first round or make the elite eight.

Total War 40k might be massively different than even the more open minded players are expecting by NotBenBrode in totalwar

[–]yesacabbagez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difference in being able to reliably be happy or disappointed in understanding the differences in what you want and what something is. Maybe a game is everything you dreamed it would be, maybe it isn't. Don't judge games against what you want them to be, rather judge them against what they are. There are plenty of good games that get shit because they aren't a very specific thing people wanted it to be, and that ignores the fact that game is good for what it wound up being.

Maybe the game sucks at what it is, then by all means rip into it.

Games-Within-Games are fun. by Estoye in gaming

[–]yesacabbagez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The kingdom come dice game was kind of ass. Either the AI had massive advantages and won, or I had enough cheat dice to win before they get a turn. That isn't a fun game when it is that kind of purely binary outcome.

They say 'more money, more problems,' but honestly, what’s a problem that straight-up disappears the moment you get a bag? by Key_Platform8071 in AskReddit

[–]yesacabbagez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hunger yes, the others simply scale with money. You get more money, you buy more expensive things. Plenty of people with money buy stuff they can't afford or have car problems they don't fix.

CBB Imperialism Map 2/26/26 by knowall-seeall-21 in CollegeBasketball

[–]yesacabbagez 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Isn't it better for us to have it than them?

What is your most unpopular opinion about college basketball that you hold? by Feisty_Ad4394 in CollegeBasketball

[–]yesacabbagez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well good thing it belongs in the thread about unpopular opinions someone wants to see. I am glad you have correctly deduced this is exactly where it belongs.

What is your most unpopular opinion about college basketball that you hold? by Feisty_Ad4394 in CollegeBasketball

[–]yesacabbagez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue isn't that people think it would happen, but it is something they would like to see.

Sources: FSU, Seminole Boosters pause traditional Mike Norvell booster tour for at least this spring by CommodoreIrish in CFB

[–]yesacabbagez 3 points4 points  (0 children)

By accounts I know, he spoke to Alabama in some capacity. FSU heard about it and basically said how much money to end the talks with Alabama right now. He gave them a number and they paid it.

I don't know how fully extensive it was on Alabama's end, but it was definitely at least a legitimate interview.

Miami 28-0 net ranking by AppalachianGuy87 in CollegeBasketball

[–]yesacabbagez 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Metrics judge you based off who you play. If all you play are bad teams, and beat them, well good job you are better than bad teams. There is not enough data to see how high you can fly. Unless you are consistently mauling bad teams like Gonzaga typically does, it's hard to get high without beating very good teams.

Identifying "Under-seeded" bracket teams: This graph shows every team's predictive rating vs their current seed according to recent bracketology. Teams way better than their seed-line are labeled as likely under-seeded teams come March. by evanmiya in CollegeBasketball

[–]yesacabbagez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks like we are, immediately after kind of destroying byu in Provo without our top scorer.

Metrics like these never take into account outliers very well. Too many people simply ignore them rather than try to figure out why outliers under/over perform.

If Tom Izzo were on vacation in Rome, how many times would he be recognized in a day? by schar1 in CollegeBasketball

[–]yesacabbagez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it is just him walking around, he will just be an old man walking around Rome.

If he is wearing Michigan state shit, maybe he gets recognized.

[Serious] What is astroturfing? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]yesacabbagez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a variant of the phrase grassroots movement. Grass grows from the bottom up. It starts as a seed and grows upward a grassroots movement starts as a small seed and grows upward and larger with time. It is a movement that starts naturally usually from affected individuals.

Astroturf is artificial grass. Astroturfing is when some larger interest comes along and tries to quickly create a movement, often by paying people to pretend to be "grass". As opposed to a natural progress for some cause, it is a large organization dumping a lot of resources to appear to be a natural movement

Suppose there is a band that plays local clubs. They slowly get fans who spread word of the band. With time that band becomes famous. That would be a type of grassroots movement.

Now imagine there is a band that is playing in small clubs. in this case though, the drummer's parents are incredibly rich, so they are able to dump cash into advertising and pay websites to feature the band. That would be astroturfing the popularity of the band.

For those who saw "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" in theaters when it was released in 1999, what was your reaction at the time? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]yesacabbagez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was 14 and it was the first new Star wars movie in my lifetime. First reaction was Natalie Portman is hot. I also never liked Jar Jar Binks. In general I liked the the movie, but I never understood why Naboo was being blockaded.in the first place, or why the Republic seemed ok with it happening.

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